Word: singed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people sing at Harvard, performing classical pieces, a capella songs, gospel numbers, and show tunes. Although few students decide to devote their lives to music, Ryan wants the challenge of professional singing and songwriting. After years of writing and performing, most recently with Wild Women and Cinnamon, Ryan has concluded that she will never end up "working in front of a computer screen." She accepts her musical "calling" with a conviction that reflects her childhood, her life at Harvard and her involvement in Wild Women and Cinnamon...
...career took shape in ninth grade, "when I started playing guitar much against my will. I wrote my first song six weeks later." Although Ryan remained bashful about performing her songs and did not even like folk music ("I was a rock chick," she explains), she felt compelled to sing them--"it needed to be done...
Crooning the usual mellow melodies--"Redemption Song," by Bob Marley, "Spanish Caravan," by the Doors and "Ziggy Stardust," by David Bowie--many of the participants gathered around guitarists and a flutist for a sing-a-long...
This was only to be expected given the history of risk-free disruptions over the last several years. From Dartmouth to Stanford, the typical sit-in scenario has run something like this: Angry students occupy some portion of university property, issue a list of nonnegotiable "demands," sing chants and leave in time for the next day's lectures. Spineless administrators have played their part too, often by making concessions or refusing to punish protestors for breaking the rules...
Many operagoers think that the jet plane has done more to ravel the thread of lovely sound than any other factor. A popular artist can sing in Brussels on Monday, Paris on Tuesday and Chicago on Thursday, and by the time Chicago rolls around, audiences often feel they are presented with a raspy voice and an unfocused characterization. Many veterans monitor their travel schedules as closely as their repertory. Rysanek arrives in a city two weeks before she is scheduled to sing. Kraus warns that if you sing in two cities on successive days, "your subconscious is working in both...